A total of 13 cruise ship visits to the Odesa port were reported in 2017.
On the average, a foreigner spends about EUR 150 while staying in the Ukrainian capital, which is 20% more than it was two or three years ago.
Lviv City Council's tourism office has reported that 2.6 million tourists visited the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in 2017, having spent EUR 615 million during their stay, according to the news outlet ZAXID.NET.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has announced the construction of a new pedestrian lightweight bridge in Kyiv under Swiss-developed blueprints, according to the news outlet Novoye Vremya.
Nearly 100 Ukrainians heading for Spain are now stranded at Kyiv's Zhuliany Airport, their flights have been cancelled as a tour operator has not paid for them, according to the TV news service TSN.
An attacker armed with a knife killed two female German not Ukrainian tourists, as first reports on the incident said, and wounded four other foreigners, including two Czechs, at an Egyptian Red Sea beach resort on Friday, local authorities and sources said, according to Reuters.
Two Ukrainian tourists were killed and four other foreigners wounded by an attacker with a knife at an Egyptian Red Sea holiday resort, Egypt's Interior Ministry and security sources said on Friday, according to Reuters.